På Lunds universitets 349:e födelsedag den 28 januari fick institutionens administrativa chef Monica Pardon ta emot universitetets administrativa pris 2017. Hon fick priset för sina (mer …)
Rektor delade ut administrativt pris till Monica Pardon
Xiaoqing Hou – new PhD student
My name is Xiaoqing Hou and I’m a new PhD student in the Pheromone Group since November last year, supported by a scholarship form CSC.
I’m from a small city in the north of China. I received my bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Nanjing Agricultural University. My master major is Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, and I focused on exploring the effects of biochar amendment to soil on feeding behavior and life history of Nilaparvata lugens.
The genes encoding olfactory receptors (ORs) are identified in many insects. Some ORs are highly specific and bind only a few odorants, while others are promiscuous, but we are far from understanding where in these receptors selectivity and sensitivity are encoded. In my PhD project I will study the functional significance of sequence variation in insect olfactory receptors (ORs).
Vackra blommor och biologisk mångfald i filmtappning
Idag hade SACT bjudit in Sven G. Nilsson att visa sin film Mandelblom, kattfot och blå viol. Filmen är en (mer …)
Biologins dag i Lund 2017
An English translation follow below.
Lördagen den 8 april är det dags för jubileumsversionen av Biologins dag i Lund. Mellan 12 och 16 har vi öppet hus på institutionen. I år kommer de (mer …)
Markus Lindh – new postdoc
I did my PhD study at the Linnaeus University, Sweden and postdoc at University of Hawaii on microbial ecology and oceanography characterizing distribution patterns and responses to predicted climate change among marine bacterial assemblages. In much of my recent work I applied theoretical ecological frameworks such as metapopulation and metacommunity models to understand biogeography of marine microbes.
Currently I am working with Charlie Cornwallis and Karin Rengefors among others, in a collaborative interdisciplinary project on the genetic mechanisms involved in the evolution of multicellularity in microbes. The goal of this evolutionary ecology project is to determine what genetic factors allow particular unicellular organisms to take the evolutionary leap toward a multicellular life style, in particular in the model organism
Chlamydomonas sp. but also among other unicellular organisms carrying the capacity to become multicellular.
Johanna Yourstone – new PhD student
Hello all! My name is Johanna Yourstone and I am very excited to start my PhD position at the Biodiversity unit, with main supervisor Ola Olsson and co-supervisor Henrik Smith.
I have been studying biology at Lund University the last couple of years (with some breaks for adventures and art studies) and I did my bachelor thesis on the impact of a neonicotinoid on solitary bees. Since then I have been very fascinated by bees and pollination ecology, which together with birding, botany and other nerdy interests brings me out in nature whenever chance is.
In my project I will look at the effect of spatio-temporal flower resource variation (related to agriculture intensity and landscape complexity) on bumblebees. I will go in-depth investigating diet, colony growth, reproduction and morphology and also add a historical aspect by investigating bumblebee-specimen collected during the last century. I hope my research will bring new light to the reasons behind bumblebee declines and provide a foundation for more efficient conservation measures.
See you in the corridors!
Dafne Ram – new PhD student
Hej! My name is Dafne Ram and I am a new PhD student at the Biodiversity Unit. I will study how birds and butterflies are distributed at the forest-farmland interface and how they respond to changes in land use and climate. I will work under supervision of Åke Lindström, Lars Pettersson and Paul Caplat.
I am from the Netherlands, where I completed my bachelor studies on nature and wildlife management. I then did my master degree here in Lund majoring in animal ecology. After my master I have worked on a project on forest bird trends with Åke Lindström and others at the Biodiversity/Monitoring group. I am very excited to continue working in this group as a PhD student!
En riktigt God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År önskas institutionens alla medarbetare!
(An English version may follow, until then:
– Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all coworkers at the Department of Biology.
And please see (mer …)
Rekordstor Luciakonstutställning
Dagens Luciakonstutställning slog alla rekord, både i antal utställare och i antal besökare. Stundtals var det inte (mer …)
Inspirerande professor avtackad
A Science Christmas at Örenäs
This Monday and Tuesday the Evolutionary Ecology unit had their annually Christmas meeting. Many unit members and (mer …)
Philip Downing – new post-doc
I have just received my Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and I am now working as a post-doc with Charlie Cornwallis. For my Ph.D. research, I used birds as a model system to test predictions from inclusive fitness theory about the evolution of cooperation.
Charlie and I will develop some of this work and use phylogenetic comparative methods to improve our understanding of altruism in particular. Why is investing in another individual’s reproduction a better strategy for transmitting genes to future generations than breeding independently? What are the consequences of having altruistic helpers for subsequent evolution? Why do some groups with altruistic helpers transform into superorganisms but not others? Are superorganisms ’individuals’, allowing for adaptation at the level of the group? Hopefully nothing too ambitious!
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